The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-22
Local and state Notes.

Eastern trunk lines have resumed the sale or the
through tickets over the Hannibal 81 st. Joseph
to Kansas City and points beyond.
Local and State Notes.
Walter Nichols. general Western passenger
agent of the Bee-iine at St. Louis, spent vester-
day in the city.
J. D. Laying, of New York city, president of
the Bee-line system is In the West this week
looking matters over
Captain Robertson agent of the American
Express Company at Brazil for some years past.
has rendered his resignation.
With the sharp falling off in freight traffic.
after the rush of last month the side-tracks are
again beginning to fill up with empty cars
The Cambridge City car works are building
500 cars for the Buffalo e Pittsburg road, turn
ing them out at the rate of eight cars dav.
There are intimations that there are to be
several changes in the directory of the Louis
vile, Evansville & st. Louis road at the coming
election in June.
Hetherington & Berner, of this city, yester
day received order from the Texas Pacific
Il St. Louis road for one of their fifty FIVE
feet iron turntables.
/. D. Beers general Western passenger agent
of the Delaware. Lackawanna & Western road,
is in the city. making arrangements to put on
full lines of tickets to the East reading over his
line.
j. D. James, agent of the c., H. & l., at Col
lege Corner has resigned, the resignation to
take effect as his successor is appoin ted.
Mr.. James goes on to the Grand Rapids & In
diana road.
Reuben Wells, formerly master mechanic on
the j.. M. 81 l., more recently holding this posi-
ton on the Louisville Sc Nashville, has resigned
to accept similar position with the Rogers
locomotive works, at Patterson, N. j.
The Wagner Sleeping and Parlor Car Com
pany have promised the general passenger agent
of the Decline that on the LIST of next month
the company will put better class of sleep
ing and parlor cars between St. Louis and the
East.
The Lake Erie & Western, as reorganized, has
only $4,000 per mile first mortgage bonds rest
ing on the property, bearing but per cent.
interest. With economical management this
road can soon take position among the divi-
dendpaying roads of Indiana
General Freight Agent Page. of the c., l.. St.
l.. & G., has decided that the rate on stone
shipped from Greensburg st. Paul to In
dianapolis shall be 80 cents per ton as hereto
fore, regardless of what advance any other road
may make on this class of traffic.
| General Passenger Agents Bronson and Der
ing, assisted by George Rockwell and others,
are revising the Indianapolis passenger rate
| sheet. which, as it now reads, names in many
! cases lower rate to distant point than to one
| fifty or one hundred miles nearer.
| Twenty fremen on the Pennsylvania lines
! have recently received letters requesting their
| designations within thirty days. Although no
| reason is assigned for making this unwelcome
request, it is understood it is the result of the
| examination of the employees for color blindness,
and that they are defective their eyesight.
The c.. l., st. L. & c. company have four
construction trains in service raising the grade
| of the road between South Side and Delhi.
| When this Improvement is completed, and their
track laid on the cutoff the company will have
| no trouble from high waters sufficient to impede
the movement of their trains at the eastern
terminus.
Jacob Fishback has brought suit against the
| L., N. A. u Z. company in the Floyd county
| court TOR $4,000 damages for the running oveI
and killing of his child some two weeks ago, and
Anna McGof6n has brought suit for the same
sum, in the same court against the Airline and
Corydon branch road for the killing of her soI
in wreck on the lastnamed road.
The L.. N. A. & c. road earned the second
week in March, $751;, 2Sl an increase over earn
| ings for the corresponding week 1856 of SO, 800
The G., H. & D. earned the second week $50.
455; increase over last year. So, 372. The Evans
Vile & Terre Haute, Sl5, 234; increase over las
year, $500 The Indianapolis & ST. Louis
| (both divsionsl, $40, 40; increase over CORE
spending week 1856, $1,000.
This week the Southern Pacific has awarde,
the contract to the Barney & Smith work
to build 300 box cars, and to the Ensign ca
works. Huntington, Va, like number Tn
Cincinnati Southern las also just awarded t
the United States Rolling-stock Company con
tract to build 100 furniture cars. Yesterda,
the Wagner Car. door Company. of this city
were notified that their door, under the con
tracts, was to be used in the three awards.
The Missouri Car and Foundry Company
which owns the car works at Cambridge City
propose to remove them to Richmond and en-
large this branch, providing the moneyed men o
that city will take $l500O0 of the stock TIL
headquarters OF the Missouri Car and Foundr,
Company at St. Louis. Dr. Buchanan. of ST
Louis, is now IN Richmond working up an in
teresr in the matter among the citizens of tina
place. The works at Cambridge City give em
ployment to 300 men most of the time.
The Vandaa line will to-day commence sell
ing tickets reading over Missouri Pacific, one O
the boycotted lines. which is of their prin
cipal Western connections The Vandalia
obliged to do this to compete with the othe
lines for Western business via ST., Louis an
Kansas City 1t is quite evident that the Eas,
ern lines are weakening on the boycott, and tn
Western lines seem more determined than eve
TO pay commissions. For some days past the l.
B. & W., the L. D. & S., and the Ohio & Missis
sippi have been carrying the passengers. the
taking no part in the boycott
Indianapolis manufacturers are worrying les
over rate matters they better understand tn
situation, and begin to feel thar they ara not t
suffer to the extent that they had feared the
would through the numerous changes in tariff
and classifcatons. 1t is probably true that Their
some crudities in the classification and rate
adopted by the roads centerrg here, but it mus
be remembered that the railroad officials ha
two months in which to do the work of a year
1t should also be borne in mind that the classic
cations and rates are applied, not an absout
order, but experiment, to be amended a
necessity requires. The freight agents, withou
exception. state that special cases will oe inves
tigated, and a way will be found to carry o
business without serious injury to any mani
featuring interest In Indianapolis.
General and miscellaneous.
The Erie Express Company withdraws froi
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